White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America
Title:
White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America
Author:
Isenberg, Nancy, author.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York, New York : Viking, [2016]
Physical Description:
xvii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary:
"A history of the class system in America from the colonial era to the present illuminates the crucial legacy of the underprivileged white demographic, citing the pivotal contributions of lower-class white workers in wartime, social policy, and the rise of the Republican Party, "--NoveList.
Language:
English
Contents:
Part I: To Begin the World Anew -- Chapter One Taking Out the Trash: Waste People in the New World -- Chapter Two John Locke's Lubberland: The Settlements of Carolina and Georgia -- Chapter Three Benjamin Franklin's American Breed: The Demographics of Mediocrity -- Chapter Four Thomas Jefferson's Rubbish: A Curious Topography of Class -- Chapter Five Andrew Jackson's Cracker Country: The Squatter as Common Man -- Part II: Degeneration of the American Breed -- Chapter Six Pedigree and Poor White Trash: Bad Blood, Half-Breeds and Clay-Eaters -- Chapter Seven Cowards, Poltroons, and Mudsills: Civil War as Class Warfare -- Chapter Eight Thoroughbreds and Scalawags: Bloodlines and Bastard Stock in the Age of Eugenics -- Chapter Nine Forgotten Men and Poor Folk: Downward Mobility and the Great Depression -- Chapter Ten The Cult of the Country Boy: Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, and LBJ's Great Society -- Part III: The White Trash Makeover -- Chapter Eleven Redneck Roots: Deliverance, Billy Beer, and Tammy Faye -- Chapter Twelve Outing Rednecks: Slumming, Slick Willie, and Sarah Palin.
ISBN:
9780670785971
Format :
Book
